After the controversial sacking of Thomas Tuchel, Chelsea seems to have lost their mojo and Graham Potter is now in a shaky position. Even Chelsea fans acknowledge that Graham Potter is not measuring up to his predecessor, who in fact won the Champions League during his first few months managing the team.
According to Chelsea-News, Ben Jacobs, who is an insider, believes that the upcoming six weeks will be vital for Potter. However, as of right now, the club’s owners fully support him and see him as their long-term choice.
Jacobs stated, “Potter hasn’t even had a transfer window and deserves time, something he was promised when joining, so it would be very harsh and unwise to make a knee-jerk change right now. This is not what the board wants.
“The whole point of hiring him was a belief he was the right fit, both as a coach but also within a newly-built recruitment team. It’s Potter’s role in the latter that will probably buy him time. Potter met with Chelsea co-owner Behdad Eghabli during the World Cup break and left even more confident Chelsea’s owners aren’t going to react to this poor run of form.
He then added, “January is a key month for Potter, though. Missing out on Champions League football, but showing progress and a clear identity, is one thing. But falling into the bottom half of the table and thus potentially missing out on the top four by a big distance is another thing altogether.
“So the next six weeks are particularly crucial. Chelsea have Manchester City, Liverpool and a series of London derbies all leading up to Dortmund in the Champions League the day after Valentine’s Day. Potter needs a big win, against a Champions League rival, to change the mood a little. But internally at the club I am told things are still pretty calm.”
One of the bigger questions for this predicament is, will Thomas Tuchel make a sudden return to Chelsea? Most likely, Chelsea will replace him with another manager that’s more qualified. Letting go of a manager mid-season has proven to be not as effective as Todd Bohely would want it to be.
Graham Potter has won once in the last seven matches. Chelsea fans, would you rather have Thomas Tuchel back or not?
1. Likes for Yes
2. Retweets for No pic.twitter.com/vW5pqEOrt9— Albanus 10 (@Kiswili_10) January 1, 2023
A Twitter poll asking if Chelsea fans would want Tuchel or Graham as their manager after Potter has only won one game in the last seven matches. The votes say that almost 99% of them want Tuchel back. It appears that 1,700 want Tuchel back and only 35 are fine with Potter.
Fans reaction towards Potter’s dangerous position
On Facebook, fans are torn between sacking him or keeping him. Some are stating that he is a family man and sacking him would be bad on his family. Furthermore, it was Chelsea that lured him from his comfortable position in Brighton.
Others stated that Chelsea’s upper management knew full well of his lack of experience managing a team as big as Chelsea. Another fan claimed that the upper management does want him gone but they wont fire him, they would just dump a near impossible task to him in hopes that he fails.
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